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On Wisconsin!
Day 35 / Aug 10 / Spring Green, WI to Madison, WI / 59.3 miles and 3,550 feet / 74 degrees Day 36 / Aug 11 / Rest Day It was another beautiful day on a bicycle. We had lovely roads with farms and streams and some pretty steep hills. We started the ride crossing
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Rolling hills and Amish country
Day 34 / Aug 9 / La Crosse, WI to Spring Green, WI / 95.3 miles and 4,583 feet / cloudy and 70 degrees with a little rain Today’s ride was beautiful through the farmland of Southern Wisconsin. We even encountered an Amish community as we rode this morning. Someone wondered if this was a
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Crossing the Mighty Mississippi and the 2/3 mark
Day 33 / Aug 8 / Lanesboro, MN to La Crosse, WI / 53.0 miles and 1,208 feet / 76 degrees Today we spent the first 31 miles on the Root River Trail. It was a nice surface and mostly shaded and a great ride. We also crossed into Wisconsin just before we crossed the
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Root River Trail
Day 32 / Aug 6 / Albert Lea, MN to Lanesboro, MN / 82.5 miles and 1,585 feet / 75 degrees I can’t begin to tell you how much nicer it is to cycle with the temperature below 90 degrees! It’s been wonderful this week – well, except for the stiff headwind Monday and Tuesday.
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Green Giant and Sprout
Day 31 / Aug 6 / Jackson, MN to Albert Lea, MN / 89.2 miles and 1,550 feet / 73 degrees with a stiff headwind (again!) What a break to have much cooler temps today. People even broke out their light jackets for the morning ride. It was a brutal and slow day of cycling
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Hello Minnesota
Day 30 / Aug 5 / Sioux Falls, SD to Jackson, MN /93.2 miles and 2,357 feet / 83 degrees with stiff headwind About 16 miles into our ride today, we crossed into Minnesota. Our seventh state of this journey. Other than the switch of states, the day was very similar to our ride on
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Soybeans, corn, corn, soybeans…and the falls
Day 28 / Aug 3 / Mitchell, SD to Sioux Falls, SD / 72.6 miles and 1,438 feet / 97 degrees Day 29 / Aug 4 / Rest day in Sioux Falls The landscape today looked very much like the Midwest. Lots of soybean and corn farms and plenty of humidity. As one of the
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Crossing the Missouri River and the Corn Palace
Day 27 / Aug 2 / Oacoma, SD to Mitchell, SD / 76 miles and 1,100 feet / 97 degrees Today, we started the day by crossing the Missouri River on our way out of Oacoma. The day was another hot one and now that we have left the dry west behind, we have found
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Grasshoppers and the I-90 frontage road
Day 26 / Aug 1 / Kadoka, SD to Oacoma, SD / 115 miles and 3,344 feet / 96 degrees Not much happened today. We rode the I-90 frontage road for 102 miles and then hopped on I-90 for about 11 miles before ending at the Arrowwood Resort along the Missouri River in Oacoma, SD.
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Badlands
Day 25 / July 31 / Wall, SD to Kadoka, SD / 57.0 miles and 2,384 feet / 93 degrees Today was one of the best days yet. We spent most of the morning riding through the Badlands. What an amazing place! We saw a little bit of wildlife, including tagged big horn sheep. The
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